Jailhouse Rock (Deluxe Edition)
by Richard Thorpe
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Actor: Dean Jones, Elvis Presley, Mickey ShaughnessyDirector: Richard Thorpe
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 79783
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- After learning to play guitar and sing during a stint in the Big House, a minor-league punk kid becomes a rock star, with a little help from a beautiful agent. But the pressures of fame wear him down. Considered by many to be Elvis Presley's best film because of its eerie narrative prescience, noirish setting, and quality songs, especially the poolside performance of "You're So Square.
DVD Reviews of Jailhouse Rock (Deluxe Edition)
DVD Review: The King Of The Hill?
Summary: 4 Stars
I am been involved lately, on a blog site that I belong to, in a friendly but spirited "debate" over whether Elvis or Jerry Lee Lewis was the real "king of the hill" in the early days of rock & roll. I have argued that, pound for pound, Jerry Lee had more energy, more musical skill, more ..., well, you get the picture, than Elvis could ever dream of. And with some exceptions, noted below, this movie, "Jailhouse Rock" based on the successful recording of one of his most famous early songs only buttresses that argument. Any Elvis aficionado would have to agree that this film is probably Elvis' best cinematic effort (most of the others being merely vehicles for promoting his latest songs of the time). Overall, however, after fifty years it does not stand the test of time.
The premise of the film is not a bad one, paralleling in some senses the real life Elvis' story of a backwoods kid who has two strikes against him trying for the brass ring- and winning. Elvis (Vince), as an ex-con is up against it in trying to crash into the record business. After falling flat on his face trying to get the established record companies to give him a shot he goes on to set up his own record company (not as hard to do in those days as one would think and certainly much easier than trying to do that today, Internet or not). After some frustrations and a few fights, verbal and otherwise, he catches the elusive break. Talent, will out. Oh, did I mention that he has a partner (two, really, but I want to discuss only one)? A young, vibrant and upscale woman who sees potential in a bad boy from across the tracks. She has faith in him. A classic 1950's teen movie cinematic trope. T he class struggle here, oops, the love struggle, forms the backdrop to the action of the film. Naturally after the now cocky Vince gets his comeuppance the couple live happily ever after making platters and making the hearts of teenage girls in the 1950's spin.
Now one and all will agree that the movie script deserves no Academy Award nomination. Moreover, these kinds of movies were made to cash in on Elvis' sex appeal and to promote his songs. However, except for the classic "Jailhouse Rock" scene where we get high swiveling Elvis at his best the rest of the songs are sleepers. His acting, as the alienated youth trying to find his own way in a hard world that he didn't make, rings false. The alienated youth image was done better, a million times better, by James Dean who made an art form out of that alienation. On Elvis it seems contrived. In any case, I will give Elvis his big moment in that "Jailhouse Rock" scene. But if you have one scene to think about musically from the 1950's doesn't Jerry Lee Lewis playing like a crazy man on "High School Confidential" on the back of a flat top truck on the way to the local high school really represent a better iconic image of what early rock & and roll was about in the late 1950's. Case closed.
Description of Jailhouse Rock (Deluxe Edition)
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 08/07/07
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: yes
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.
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